Des milliers de personnes dans la rue à Paris pour soutenir la famille d'un Mauritanien mort en garde à vue
To the cry of "We are not against the police, we are against the police who kill us", several thousand people marched on Sunday in Paris to support the family of El Hacen Diarra, a Mauritanian who died in police custody on the night of January 14-15.
A week after the first gathering, a crowd of grieving faces gathered at the foot of the migrant workers' hostel in the northeast of the French capital, where the man in his thirties lived and in front of which he was violently arrested.
Behind a banner demanding "Justice" for El Hacen Diarra and wishing "peace to his soul," several members of his family wore black T-shirts still demanding "Justice and Truth" in white letters. In the procession, several organizers addressed the crowd from atop a float, including Assa Traoré, a prominent figure in the fight against police brutality.
"It hurts very, very much," his cousin, Diankou Sissoko, told AFP. "We are here because it is our duty, we are his family. But I don't believe at all that there will be justice. Because before El Hacen died, there had already been other deaths, and there was never any justice," she said calmly.
"My cousin was a kind, smiling, reserved person," she describes. "A quiet person," in short, she adds, saying she was "really surprised" by the police account portraying him as aggressive.
The police version of events is under investigation. In a video captured by a neighbor, two police officers can be seen, one of whom, kneeling, punches El Hacen Diarra twice while he is pinned to the ground. He can be heard shouting, "You're strangling me!", according to the audio analysis conducted by the deceased's family.
El Hacen Diarra, 35, was taken to the station and died there.
An investigation has been opened and further examinations beyond the autopsy have been ordered.
The "two police officers" who arrested El Hacen Diarra "are still on active duty," local councilor (Communist) Anne Baudonne told AFP. "We don't understand why the Minister of the Interior didn't find it legitimate to suspend them."
"At this stage, there is no indication of the cause of death," Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez responded in an interview Sunday with the newspaper Le Parisien, adding that "the official who, in the images, throws two punches, will have to explain himself."
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Ces crimes , ces actes de BARBARIES sont causés par des ÉNERGUMÈNES NAUSÉABONDES HAINEUX RACISTES STUPIDES , quelle HONTE , quelle STUPIDITÉ , quelle HORREUR ,
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